“The French international U23 leaves Olympique de Marseille for Eintracht with immediate effect. The striker signed a contract with the Bundesliga de Hesse club until 2030 ” announced Olympique de Marseille last January by formalizing by these words the departure of Elye Wahi for Eintracht Frankfurt. The 22 -year -old French striker had completely missed his Marseille adventure. Landed in the summer of 2024 when he came out of a disappointing season in Lens (12 goals and 4 assists in 36 games), Elye Wahi has greatly disappointed under the orders of Roberto de Zerbi. Arrived for 27 million euros in the role of an indisputable, he saw his lining Neal Maupay do better than him and left the Phocaeans after five months the tail between the legs to land in Germany. After only 13 games for 3 goals and 1 assist with Marseille, Elye Wahi wanted to take advantage of this change of air in the Bundesliga to find the level he displayed on the side of Montpellier where he exploded.
Confident, the international striker U21 quickly demonstrated the desire to bounce back and find a positive dynamic in his career. “I am happy to be at Eintracht from now on. It is a big club of which I heard a lot of positive things. For me, it was quickly clear that I wanted to grasp this chance and come here. I want to make the confidence placed in me by achieving good performances and scoring goals ”he confided following his signature with the eagles. Taking advantage of the departure of Omar Marmoush to Manchester City to have more possibilities to find a place alongside Hugo Ekitiké in attack, he is in direct competition with another former Marseillais Mitchy Batshuayi who also arrived this winter, but also the young Turkish talent Can Uzun which is an attacking midfielder and offers a different option.
Eintracht Frankfurt flies to the aid of its attacker
Building to put his attackers in good measures in recent years, Eintracht Frankfurt has enabled players like Luka Jovic, Sébastien Haller, André Silva, Randal Kolo Muani and recently Omar Marmoush to shine in a thousand lights. Now the torch has been taken over by Hugo Ekitike who continues to wear German training (18 goals and 6 34 -game offerings). Faced with this dynamic, Elye Wahi has come down to a thigh and its beginnings were delayed. In particular, missing a match against Wolfsburg, he has gradually taken up the pace. Coming against Borussia Mönchengladbach (1-1), the Holstein Kiel (3-1) and Bayern Munich (0-4), he could not weigh on his meetings and did not find the path of the nets. Services that are difficult to judge for the moment, but coach Dino Toppmöller has enabled him to enter a little more into collective dynamics. This Saturday against Bayer Leverkusen, Elye Wahi had the opportunity to start for the first time. A first tenure that was missed by the tricolor player.
If he made the quickest sprint of the Germans during this meeting (34.9 km/h), he did not succeed much more and was dominated by Jonathan Tah during a heavy 4-1 defeat. Not presenting the slightest offensive danger for his opponent, he can count on the support of his coach Dino Toppmöller who did not want to overwhelm him: “It was certainly not the Elye which we can all expect. But I think it was not so bad. It would be unfair to judge him on this match today. It is not the most rewarding task for an attacker to have to run after the ball against Leverkusen. It was nevertheless important for him to be in the starting eleven and to enter a certain rhythm.»A little disturbing situation also for sports director Markus Krösche who also talked after the meeting:«It was certainly not so easy. We also see that its trips are not yet really coordinated with other guys, but it is a normal process.If the eagles are not alarmed, it will be necessary to quickly rectify the shot for Elye Wahi. With only a victory in five Bundesliga matches, Frankfurt remains third, but saw its pursuers Mainz (-1 point), Friborg (-2 points) and Leipzig (-4 points) reduce the gap in the past few weeks. The German club will need another Elye Wahi so as not to sink into the crisis.
